The White House's desire for the patent for Jiuxuan Zaizao Pill was both unexpected and reasonable in Smith's view.
Once the health department reported this news to the White House, they would naturally not be able to miss this good opportunity.
However, it is not up to them to decide whether they can get the patent.
This kind of medicine is like a super money printing machine. No one with a little foresight can sell the patent.
But Smith did not pour cold water on the other party, but readily agreed, saying: "After I meet the person in charge of the other party, I will try my best to promote this matter.
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As he spoke, Smith added: "However, I'm afraid I can't handle such a big matter by myself. Should the White House send some negotiators over?"
The Minister of Health immediately denied: "It is difficult for the White House to come forward directly on this kind of matter. If word spread, it will make people mistakenly think that the White House intends to control the medical field. Once governments around the world start to get involved, it will be difficult to promote this matter."
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After saying that, the other party asked again: "You go over this time and explore the other party's tone in private first. If the other party is interested in taking action but wants more money, I will call the person in charge of Johnson & Johnson and ask them to
Come forward and buy this patent.
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Smith was secretly stunned and thought: "The White House is indeed very clever in handling this kind of thing. They learned the news first, and then wanted to pick the fruit and give it to a top big company like Johnson & Johnson. Once Johnson & Johnson gets this top-notch
Aren’t drug patents about to become popular?”
At this time, the other party continued to remind him: "Smith, you must try your best to promote this matter. Once the patent is successfully obtained in the United States, Johnson & Johnson will use at least a few percentage points of sales a year to manage the relationship, including you.
Me, this is a huge cake!”
Smith couldn't help but feel shocked.
Once this drug has the opportunity to be fully marketed, it can easily generate sales of 100 billion US dollars a year. If it takes a few percentage points, it will be at least several billion US dollars.
If billions of dollars are used to deal with the relationship, even if I only divide it into small pieces, I'm afraid it will have to be calculated in units of hundreds of millions.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but get excited and said quickly: "I will definitely try my best to facilitate this matter!"
The other party responded with satisfaction, and then said: "Smith, there are instructions from the White House. If the patent for this drug cannot be obtained, the formula must be cracked. However, the seven pills you obtained before were all used by your son.
After eating it, there was no sample left, so this time you have to get some more Jiuxuan Zaozhao Pills.
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Smith asked in surprise: "If we can't get the patent authorization, we will directly crack the other party's formula. This will definitely have a devastating impact on the credibility of our entire pharmaceutical patent system. Isn't it too risky?"
"What are you afraid of?
The other party said nonchalantly: "We will definitely not do this kind of thing ourselves. Once we have mastered the formula, we will hand it over to the Indian pharmaceutical company we control for production. India does not recognize pharmaceutical patents anyway."
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Smith instantly understood the other party's intention.
If you can't buy it openly, you'll steal it secretly.
After stealing it, put it in India for production, so as to avoid legal risks.
India's generic drugs have always been world-famous. The reason why they can blatantly copy various drugs is because the country's laws do not recognize pharmaceutical patents, so this kind of thing is not illegal in India.
Smith was somewhat resistant to this strategy.
After all, he comes from an academic background and respects medical patents very much, just like an author respects copyright the most.
Allowing him to participate in piracy of drug patents is equivalent to asking an author who has been in the industry for many years and has deep feelings for creation to engage in plagiarism.
He really didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing.
So, he could only deal with it: "I know, I will try my best to find ways to promote the patent, and I will tell you as soon as there is news.
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The other party didn't say much and told me: "If you have any news, please contact me as soon as possible.